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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : probably from a reduced form of the Anglo-Norman French personal name or nickname Avenant ‘suitable’ or ‘handsome’.
  • Family historians record an Isham Avent in the Carolinas in the 1760s. His father was Colonel Thomas Avent from England.

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